A lot of us who aren’t crazy aboot Mitt Romney as our candidate have been waiting for the other candidates to go after his record and challenge him. What we weren’t expecting were them to attack him FROM THE LEFT and go after his time at Bain Capital and for otherwise engaging in capitalism. I made light of this yesterday, and I don’t feel bad because Romney has used class warfare rhetoric against his opponents long before this. It still put a lot of us in the odd position of defending him.
There’s an opening here though. See, as much as it makes me uncomfortable to see other Republicans attacking their opponents as liberals, I’m glad they did because it lets primary voters see a) what’s waiting for him from the Democrats, and b) see how Romney reacts to the attacks. And therein lies his opening to unify everyone, because the biggest issue many of us have with Romney is that we don’t think he’s going to have the balls to punch back and go after President Obama, the Democrats, and the usual Obama Media Complex.
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“If you don’t make the argument in the campaign,what makes you think that you’ll ever make it if you get elected–Jan. 21?”
I’m trying to get used to the idea of Mitt Romney as our Presidential candidate. He seems to be the only one organized enough to run a national campaign, and if he doesn’t motivate me I can always find Senate and other local candidates I can channel my energy on. Fine.
Interesting piece from Ross Douhat. I’ve blogged before aboot Democrat 
